Ohio to Measure Medical Marijuana by THC Amount

In
legal cannabis states, you can purchase and
possess certain amounts of weed measured by weight. Ohio lawmakers,
however, want to limit the amount
of cannabis a person can legally buy not by ounces or grams but by
the amount of THC the product contains.
If implemented, the law will make Ohio's medical cannabis policy one
of the most restrictive in the nation.

House
bill 523 allows patients with any of the 20 qualifying conditions
to purchase and possess no more than a “90-day supply” of
marijuana plant material or infused edibles. The tricky thing about
this law is that it does not specify what amount of weed is
considered to be the “90-day supply.” So, Ohio lawmakers want to
make things a bit clearer. However, in contrast to their colleagues
from other legal states, Ohio regulators want to use the product's
amount of THC as the defining measurement.

According
to the draft
rules released by the
Ohio State Board of Pharmacy on February 23, 2017, medical
marijuana patients and caregivers will be allowed to collectively
purchase the following quantities of marijuana:

Up
to 19,8 grams (220 mg per day) of THC content in patches for
transdermal administration.

Up
to 9 grams (100 mg per day) of THC content in oil, tincture,
capsule, tablet, or edible form for oral administration.

Up
to 40,5 grams (450 mg per day) of THC content in medical marijuana
oil for vaporization.

As
for the plant material, the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy offers
different limits for different categories of weed:

for
tier I medical marijuana (plant material with THC levels below 23
percent)―no
more than six ounces;

Since lawmakers in Tallahassee, Florida, failed to agree on the rules for regulating the state’s medical marijuana industry, Florida's Department of Health has announced its intent to start the process without them.

In New Mexico, thousands of medical cannabis patients jeopardize their health and freedom because of significant delays in reissuing of medical cards. Patients who try to get renewals for their expired cards face time-consuming bureaucracy that delays their marijuana treatment for months.